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Music and Religious Change
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Reform and Expansion, 1500–1660, edited by R. Po-Chia Hsia. The Cambridge History of Christianity 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/7P3HMLWY Abstract: Between the beginning of the Lutheran Reformation and the end of the Thirty Years’ War sacred music in early modern Europe underwent several waves of transformation, responding partly […]
Salminger, Sigmund
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2d ed., Personenteil 14:867–8. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2005. Weblink: www.abebooks.com
Mussorgsky & Stravinsky: Music for Two Pianos
Artists: Mark Anderson and Tamariko Siprashvili Recording details: “These are very fine performances with plenty of virtuosity and a lovely burnished tone”— JAMES LEONARD, ALLMUSIC (ALLMUSIC.COM) Nimbus Records, 2004
“Fugger” [family of bankers and music patrons]
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2d ed., Personenteil 7:246–52. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2002. Weblink: www.abebooks.com
Edition of Rudolph di Lasso, Virginalia Eucharistica
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: (Munich: Nikolaus Heinrich, 1615). Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era 114. Madison, Wisc.: A-R Editions, 2002. Weblink: https://www.areditions.com
Narratives of Middle Eastern Music History
Author: Fisher, Alexander and Dr. Virginia Danielson Publication details: The Middle East, 15–27. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music 6. New York: Routledge Reference, 2002. Weblink: https://www.routledge.com/The-Garland-Encyclopedia-of-World-Music-The-Middle-East/Danielson-Reynolds-Marcus/
Copland & Gershwin: An American Recital
Artists: Mark Anderson Recording details: “Mark Anderson brings a compelling grandeur and eloquent fervour to Copland’s imposing Sonata of 1939-41 (apparently Leonard Bernstein’s favourite work), achieving a splendid concentration and unforced gravitas in the riveting concluding Andante sostenuto in particular. …the sound is eminently truthful and the audience impeccably behaved (and, I should add, rightly […]
Paul Hindemith, Gottfried Benn, and the Defense of the Autonomy of Art in the Late Weimar Republic
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Hindemith-Jahrbuch 28 (1999): 11–53. Weblink: https://www.schott-music.com/en/hindemith-jahrbuch-no16696.html
Brahms: Klavierstücke Op 118 & 119
Artists: Mark Anderson Recording details: “[Mark Anderson] creates a magical oasis of calm in the Op.118 No.2 and finds so much more than mere energy in the robust opening measures of the ‘Ballade ‘. His temperament is ideally suited to the elusive mix of romanticism and pre-impressionism in Op.119 No.1. Quite without cunning or artifice, his […]
Liszt: Rhapsodie Espagnole
Artists: Mark Anderson Recording details: “As his two previous Nimbus discs (3/95 and 7/95 – the latter including a fine performance of Liszt’s Dante Sonata) show, Mark Anderson is a most musicianly pianist. His communicative ardour understandably made him an audience favourite at the 1993 Leeds Piano Competition and here, in this richly diverse programme, he […]